MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES & BLOOM’S TAXONOMY

UNIT OF WORK

UNIT OF STUDY: Bushrangers YEAR LEVEL: Stage2/3

Multiple Intelligences	Bloom’s Taxonomy: Six Thinking Levels
	Knowing	Understanding	Applying	Analysing	Creating	Evaluating
Verbal I enjoy reading, writing & speaking	List as many names of bushrangers as you can	Write a report telling what Life was like in Australia in the 1850’s to the 1880’s	Design a wanted poster for one of the bushrangers	Write a letter to the editor about Ned Kelly’s trial	Create a police file on your chosen bushranger	Review the Kelly files
Mathematical I enjoy working with numbers & science	Find out about the amount of money travelling through the colony during the goldrushes	Prepare a time line showing when bushrangers first appeared adding bushrangers as you find out more	Design a bushranger board game ***	PMI on the police forces at the time		Bushrangers had no choice. They were victims of a cruel legal system. Debate
Visual I enjoy painting drawing & visualising	Make a time line of your selected bushranger’s life	Illustrate your time line with pictures	On a map of Victoria and NSW, mark the territories of the bushrangers using illustrations	Compare and contrast crime and punishment in the 1800’s compared to today	Design a mural on the siege at Glenrowan	Evaluate 2 of Sydney Nolan’s paintings of Ned Kelly
Kinaesthetic I enjoy doing hands-on activities	Act out a court scene from the Kelly trial	Draw then Construct a diorama of the siege at Glenrowan ( Pairs or small groups)		Write a short skit about an event in your chosen bushrangers life	Write a poem about the cemetery at Beechworth or Ned Kelly’s last stand at Glenrowan	Play and evaluate one of the bushranger board games
Musical I enjoy making & listening to music	Learn the ‘Wild Colonial Boy’	Find any songs you can about bushrangers	Write a bushranger jingle or RAP	Compare and contrast two songs about bushrangers	Create a percussion score for one of the bushranger songs	Present your song at assembly
Interpersonal I enjoy working with others	Present your report on your excursion event to the class	In your group gather enough information from your assigned excursion event to present a report to the class	Board game ***	Design a questionnaire and Interview other students about justice in the 1800’s	Carry out an X chart on bushrangers	Report your group interview finding to the class
Intrapersonal I enjoy working by myself	Research 3 bushrangers and rank them in order of interest	Visualise that you are a captured bushranger. How do you feel?	How do you think your chosen bushranger felt about his life	Prepare a mind map of everything you know about bushrangers	You are a bushranger. Justify your lifestyle choice	Carry out a SWOT analysis on your chosen bushranger